Animation Major - Week 4

This week, I've completed a script and redid most of my thumbnails following the various changes the story has taken. Since the walrus character has been removed entirely, along with most of the backbone of the original story, my concentration is focused on the remaining two characters. I've also more or less designed the robot, pictured below. I kept in mind the limitations of time and the fact he's the more mobile of the two characters, so he has a lot of ball joints and places to hide limbs, the head, etc. that will make animating him as stress-free as possible. We're currently creating a clay model of one of our characters to scan in 3-D, so I'm hoping the penguin won't be too difficult to model from there. As for animating it, I spent a while on the weekend observing penguin movement on nature documentaries. Hopefully this insight will serve to help create the character's performance.